{"id":368,"date":"2007-03-26T02:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-26T08:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=368"},"modified":"2007-03-26T02:33:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-26T08:33:00","slug":"afghanistan-not-fit-for-americas-front-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/03\/afghanistan-not-fit-for-americas-front-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan: not fit for America&#8217;s front page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/eat-the-press\/time%20echoes%20newsweek%20on%20jihadistan.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 434px; height: 123px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/eat-the-press\/time%20echoes%20newsweek%20on%20jihadistan.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/eat-the-press\/newsweeks%20around%20the%20world.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/eat-the-press\/newsweeks%20around%20the%20world.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span class=\"dropcaps\">S<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stellaartois.com\/main.jsp\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">tella Artois<\/span><\/a> beer is Belgian. In Belgium it is so cheap and plentiful, they could refill the canals of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trabel.com\/brugge\/bruges-canals.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Bruges<\/a><\/span> with its gaseous flows.<\/p>\n<p>In the UK, it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stella-artois.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">marketed<\/a> as an expensive and sophisticated Gallic brew &#8211; the kind of thing one might order to impress <a href=\"http:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emmanuelle_B%C3%A9art\" target=\"_blank\">Emmanuelle B\u00e9art<\/a> (showing my age there). It&#8217;s an old trick: same product, different markets.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/eat-the-press\/2007\/03\/25\/time-joins-n_e_44218.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">HuffPo<\/span><\/span><\/a> &#8211; a tale of two magazines, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Time<\/span><\/span> and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Newsweek<\/span><\/span> &#8211; worldly to the world, homely to the folks at home&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stella Artois beer is Belgian. In Belgium it is so cheap and plentiful, they could refill the canals of Bruges with its gaseous flows. In the UK, it&#8217;s marketed as an expensive and sophisticated Gallic brew &#8211; the kind of thing one might order to impress Emmanuelle B\u00e9art (showing my age there). It&#8217;s an old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[344,120],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-time","tag-us-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}